Emperor’s Domination - Chapter 2865

Chapter 2865: 2865

A world of bones - skeletons as far as the eye can see and nothing else .

The skeletons here were massive in size . Any single piece was already the size of a peak . They scattered across millions of miles . One could easily imagine how large they used to be when they were still alive .

They have seen the giants in the ancient courtyard prior to this . However, these ones seemed smaller compared to these skeletons .

Just one skeleton alone was shocking enough but there were thousands of them here - truly a magnificent scene .

They have never experienced something like this before so they became overwhelmed with fear; their mouth left agape for a long time .

“What… is this place?” One student dropped to the ground, trembling .

Li Qiye didn’t answer; his eyes focused on the bones ahead in a profound manner .

“This place?” The bull laughed: “Where else can it be but the Beast Garden? The resting place of all the sacred beasts . ” 

“You’re, you’re saying that the gigantic beasts in the garden will come here before death?” A different student asked .

“Hehe, it’s not that simple . Do you see any small skeletons in here? The wild boars and rhinoceros aren’t here . ”

The group took a look around and sure enough, they couldn’t see anything small .

“When the melon is ripe, it falls . ” The bull elaborated: “Not just anyone is qualified to die here . For example, don’t you always aim for the bigger fish when fishing and release the small ones?”

“Impossible . ” One student said: “These gigantic beasts must have been unbelievably mighty, who could actually catch them?”

“Haha, that was only an example, but it’s a good one . ” The bull laughed .

“No need to scare them, they haven’t reached the right level yet . ” Li Qiye withdrew his gaze and shook his head .

“I’m simply telling them about the grim reality of this world . Let this be an early lesson for them . ” The bull shrugged .

The students looked at each other, not knowing what to say .

This skeletal world made them feel quite strange . After all, their Academy of Light was shrouded by the light - a paradise for all living beings .

Li Qiye smiled and continued forward, only occasionally glancing above .

“Come over here! I found a pearl!” A student behind him found a jewel among a gap between the bones .

It was the size of a fist with a pink glow . This student excitedly told his friends .

Li Qiye looked over at the skeleton and said: “This is a truefire scaled serpent, a special morph . It obtained the grand dao with the light and created these pearls in its spine . Look from the eighteenth to the thirty-sixth vertebra, you will find many of them . ” [1]

“Really?” The group became excited and rushed over . They tried their best to work together to move these gigantic bone pieces .

“Wow, you’re right, so many pearls!” Bright flames jumped up from the pearls below the vertebrae .

“Let’s take them all . ” They pushed the bones away to reach the fiery pearls .

“We’re rich!” The group took them all and cheered .

However, they handed the pearls to Li Qiye since he was the one who gave them the hint .

“You guys can split them . The truefire pearls can expel coldness and poison, it’s very good to keep around . ” Li Qiye didn’t want them .

These pearls were great treasures to the students but no different from pebbles in his eyes .

The young ones cheered again before dividing the pearls .

“Hehehe, I didn’t lie to you, right? I told you that I would bring you to a place with lots of treasures . ” The bull heartily laughed .

The young ones agreed - this bull really didn’t trick them .

“See that mountain iron leopard over there?” Li Qiye smiled and pointed at another corpse: “Take some bones and cut deep to find the marrow essences . They are true metals, perfect for creating weapons . ”

The young ones became excited right away .

“I guess just look around, the good stuff here exceeds your imagination . What you get depends on your luck . ” He added .

The group ran over and cut down its tailbone . They drilled inside and saw marrow essences looking just like true metals .

They became as busy as ants, moving from one skeleton to another to find items .

These gigantic beasts used to be powerful . Though their vitality and essences have mostly dispersed, some precious parts were still left behind .

“Check out this tooth!” One student found a shiny tooth as sharp as a blade .

“Not bad, that’s a new tooth from a water-cutter alligator, tough and sharp . ” Li Qiye commented .

“I found this really soft bone . ” Another student found a jade-like bone inside one skeleton .

“Get over here, look at what I found!” One more carried over an oversized toe bone seemingly cast from gold .

These students crazily searched around for treasures in this skeletal world, no longer frightened by these dead behemoths .  

Occasionally, Li Qiye would give them pointers on where to find treasures .

He himself took his time because ordinary treasures were useless to him . He would stop every once in a while and cut out a skull to take out a strange flame seed or cut out a spine to find a jade essence…

Very few items warranted him taking action . The rest only earned a passing glance .

“You brought me here to dig up trash?” Li Qiye leisurely asked the bull while the rest of the students were preoccupied .

The bull has been following him instead of treasure hunting .

“Haha, no, I just wanted to show you that Desolate Saint is not a good guy at all . Here is the perfect example . You’re also a big shot and should notice some clues already . ” The bull laughed .

“I know far more about Desolate Saint than you . ” Li Qiye glanced at the sky and smiled .

“Oh, so do you think he’s a saint or, hahaha, a devil in the darkness?” The bull asked .

“Very few people are truly born evil in this world . ” Li Qiye said: “Everyone struggled in some ways . The saviors tried their best; others resisted the darkness; more tried to save themselves without giving a damn about their loved ones or anyone else…”

He paused for a moment here before continuing: “However, only a selected few persevered . That’s why, one can’t judge them on one action or just part of their past and determine their morality, whether they’re a saint or a devil . Desolate Saint had struggled to fulfill his aspirations . Unfortunately, life seldom goes according to plans . ”

1 . Does vertebrae sound too modern and scientific? But keep on using “bone” sounds bad too